User:Emmanuel Aiyede

Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science (since 2013); former Sub-Dean Faculty of the Social Sciences (2012-2014) and former Coordinator, Leadership and Governance Programme  (2010- 2014), Centre for Sustainable Development, University of Ibadan, and Visiting Scholar, The Electoral Institute, Independent National Electoral Commission, Abuja (2016-2017).

He graduated with a Ph.D. degree in political science from the University of Ibadan in 2000. He began his career as a Fellow at the Governance Unit of the Development Policy Centre (DPC), an independent think tank in Nigeria, committed to research, training and advocacy in the fields of governance, administrative reforms and social development in 1998, after a brief stint in journalism.

His research effort has been focused on Political Institutions, Governance, Social Policy and Administrative Reforms. His work provides a useful link among public policy, administrative reform and democratic institution building. He has also had a wide-ranging experience in public policy. First, he started his career as Fellow, at the Development Policy Centre, an independent policy think tank, where he was engaged in research, training, advocacy and outreach activities on public policies in the fields of governance, administrative reforms  and   social   development   from 1998   to   2004 from where he   joined   the university as a full time academic.

As an academic, has had close contact with the policy process. He provided expert and technical support to the then Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, and later of information, of the Nigerian Federal Government, Mr Frank Nweke, between 2004-2007. He teaches social and public Policy at the Centre for Sustainable Development, University of Ibadan. He has been involved with the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) Policy intervention programmes. He is on the PASGR team promoting innovative pedagogy in higher education in Africa. He was a part of the team that developed the curriculum for the Master of Research and Public Policy programme currently being run in 12 African universities.

He has been teaching Comparative Defence Policy in the M.Sc in Strategic Studies programme jointly run by the University of Ibadan and the National Defence College. This has afforded him close contact with the defence and security sector officials in Nigeria. He regularly visit the Defence College to deliver lectures. He gave the Annual Chief of Army Staff Conference Lecture in 2008. He has had to speak with officers of the Nigerian military at several similar occasions.

He has consulted for several donor agencies and international organisations, such as ECOWAS, ECA, DCAF, Global Integrity, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, and the UNDP. He is on the Editorial Board of Nigeria’s oldest surviving newspaper, the Nigerian Tribune, since 2008. He contributes to public discourse in the Nigerian news media.

He taught at the University of Lagos, before joining the University of Ibadan in 2005. He is a beneficiary of the Partnership for Africa  Social   and Governance Research (PASGR) series of training programmes on Pedagogical methods for teaching public policy and e-case development programme (2013-2014). He has had visiting lectureship experience in several universities within and outside Africa.

His recent publications include: E. Remi Aiyede (2017) “Civil Society Efficacy, Citizenship and Empowerment in Africa” Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organisations. Vol. 28, No. 3, 1326-1345. Nicholas Awortwi and E. Remi Aiyede (eds) (2017) Politics, Public Policy and Social Protection In Africa: Evidence From Cash Transfer Programmes. London: Routledge. His article “The Dynamics  of  Civil  Society  and  the  Democratisation  Process  in  Nigeria” Canadian Journal of African studies, 37(1): 1-27  (2003) won a 2003 medal in the World Bank prize for Outstanding Research in Development of the Global Development Network (GDN).My article on Fiscal Federalism and  the Dilemma of Constructing a Developmental State in Nigeria, International Political Science Review, 30, No.3: 249-269 is one of the 50 most cited articles in the Sage and the Journal website for several years.